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Dock tour: Region is No. 1
in state for ground fish
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Andrew Bornstein talked
about his family’s fish
ground fish and the
processing business.
numbers have ris-
On Wednesday, the
en dramatically in
company was pack-
the last two years.
aging rockfish and
In 2017, 140 million
crab.
pounds was landed,
Bornsteins would
bringing in $30 mil-
like to process fish
lion in revenue.
24/7
year-round
Stops on the tour
instead
of
just sea-
included
Englund
Bornstein
sonally, and handle
Marine’s Life Raft
anything that comes
Shop in Warrenton,
from the Pacific
Warrenton Marina
Ocean,
Bornstein
and Bornstein Sea-
said.
foods’ Astoria pro-
While they employ
cessing plant.
150 to 200 workers,
Participants got to
the area has a severe
sample baked rock-
labor shortage. In the
fish donated by the
next decade, they’d
Oregon Trawl Com-
Tumbarello like to have a Tilla-
mission.
Photo by Joyce Carrell
A commercial fishing life raft was among the products on display at
Englund Marine’s Raft Shop
Medix employee earns national award
Nicole Cleary, Medix
welcome from the mo-
Ambulance’s primary
ment they meet her,”
biller, has been named
Office Manager Krista
a 2018 recipient of the
Cuthbert said.
Stars of Life Award
Cleary joined Medix
from the American Am-
in 2007. She also serves
bulance Association.
as secretary of Medix’s
Cleary
The program honors
Safety, Operations and
emergency medical ser-
Quality Committee.
vices professionals who repre-
Paramedics, EMTs, dis-
sent excellence in every area patchers and other personnel
of the industry.
are potential nominees for
“She makes everyone feel the Stars of Life award.
Photos by Joyce Carrell
Left: Kevin Dunn of K&K Knots describes the intricacies of his commercial fishing nets to a tour
group at the Warrenton Marina. Right: Workers at Bornsteins Seafoods prepare crab for packaging.
mook cheese factory-style
operation, but parking and
port frontage is expensive.
“We don’t have enough pro-
cessing (room) or humans to
process more fish,” he said.
“Ninety-one percent of the
fish we eat (in this region) is
imported.”
Tongue Point Job Corps
hopes to change some of the
dire labor statistics, said Len
Tumbarello of the corps’ Sea-
manship Program.
The program takes 18- to
24-year-olds and trains them
to be qualified fisheries work-
ers earning $50- to $70,000
per year, he said. “It’s a mini
maritime academy.”
A diminished workforce is
matched by a lack of moor-
age space for the commercial
fleet, Warrenton Harbormas-
ter Jane Sweet said.
She showed off the com-
mercial docks, which the
city’s urban renewal agency
paid to replace in 2016-17.
“Every spot is a working
vessel. We have no more der-
elict boats here,” Sweet said.
“Still we have a list of more
than 50 boats that want to
moor here.”
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